150 Years Ago This Week, Who Became Cheyenne’s First Mayor?

The City of Cheyenne established itself August 10, 1867, The townsfolk elected H. M. Hook, the first mayor's grave sites started a whole onslaught of phony claims, according to The History of Wyoming.

When Hook got elected, there wasn't much of an election campaign, and it wouldn't be much of a mayoral term, but a lot happened 150 years ago this week.

H.M. Hook came to Cheyenne from La Porte, Colorado, just north of Fort Collins. Hook managed a busy stage line in the area for a while. Eventually, the railroad came in and the stage coach along with most of the town disappeared.

So Hook eventually mosied along the region until he eventually opened a general store called the Great Western Corral after he laid foot in Cheyenne. The spot would eventually be the home of the Cheyenne Civic Center.